Creating doubt and suspicion at the entry point ensures the fox’s sensory alarms are triggered immediately, before it has even set foot in your garden. Each deterrent in this list is the best of its type. No two are exactly the same and they all work in slightly different ways from one another, targeting different senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch etc…) and different types of problems. Hopefully there’s something here that you feel you can make use of.

If you’re unsure, add around 5 litres of water and see if this is enough to cover the areas in need of protection. Scoot is humane and biodegradable so it doesn’t harm your garden and won’t be of concern to your cat. It’s simply a powder you mix with water and is very fox-specific due to the nature of the smell.

Scottish Highlands & Islands postcodes: AB, FK, HS, IV, KA, KW, PA, PH, ZE, LL58-LL78, IM, TR, PO30-41 The biggest mistake people make with Scoot (and fox repellents in general) is to use it once and think that’s all they need to do. However, as we discussed above, foxes are persistent with their scent-marking and don’t simply disappear at the first sign of trouble. No, unfortunately Scoot Fox Repellent is a British-made product and is not currently available in the USA.

In fact, it’s specifically designed to help protect plants, flowerbeds, potted plants and grass from being dug up, damaged or fouled on by foxes.If the entrance looks, sounds and smells safe, the fox will decide, ‘ Yes, all seems fine. I’m going in.‘ This is probably how the fox views your garden at the moment and likely has done for a long time. In fact, the purpose of a good quality fox deterrent is to change the fox’s attitude to your garden from somewhere that it has free reign to do as it pleases to an environment full of uncertainty, doubt and potential danger.